Other languages

• Dutch: adviso, tijding, mare 
• French: rapport, nouvelle 
• German: Bericht, Nachricht 
• Italian: reporto, riporto, rapporto, ragguaglio 
• Polish: nowina, gazeta ulotna
• Spanish: reporte? 

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Description

In Venice, an important centre for the production and dissemination of avvisi, the term reporto was largely synonymous with avvisi, similarly being used to denote both a newsletter and its content (news). It was also used synonymously with ragguaglio.  

From Northern Italy the term spread across Europe, where in most contexts it referred solely to a single piece of news or information and no longer to any specific type of popular publication. In France, rapport was used less frequently than relation to indicate single pieces of news. 

Related terms

aviso, tidings, nouvelle

Sources

P. Arblaster, A. Belo, C. Espejo, S. Haffemayer, M. Infelise, N. Moxham, J. Raymond, N. Schobesberger, ‘The Lexicons of Early Modern News’, in: J. Raymond and N. Moxham (eds.), News Networks in Early Modern Europe (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016), 64-101.